New Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide Art and Details Revealed

The marketing cycle for the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide is underway. Wizards of the Coast has released the first video and accompanying article previewing the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide. Wizards has already told fans what's actually in the new 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide, so there's not much in terms of actual new details. The video/article revealed that the Bastion system got another look from designers after its initial Unearthed Arcana playtest, that there will be a DM's Toolkit for everything from "alignment to traps," now arranged in alphabetical order, and that there will be 400 "new and improved" magic items.

The 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide will also be the home of rules for crafting magic items and a new Greyhawk campaign setting guide, with a focus on showcasing how Greyhawk can be customized or be used as a model for homemade campaign settings. Finally, the Dungeon Master's Guide will contain a lore glossary and a full chapter about D&D cosmology, the latter of which helps to drive home the idea of the D&D multiverse.


While much of this information was already known, the video and article did show off a LOT of new art, some of which can be found below:

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

No, it's by Donald Sutherland.

On a side note, I recall Tim Kask saying that Donald Sutherland hated being the art director, because he knew he wasn't as good as the artists he was in charge of. He especially hated female artists, and would say they shouldn't be into fantasy gaming. To quote Tim, "How he ever found a woman to marry him is beyond me."

He was an award-winning actor, for one thing, and the star of classic movies like M*A*S*H, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Great Train Robbery, Ordinary People, played Buffy's first watcher in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, was a great villain in the Hunger Games movies.

Heck, I would have married him!

 

[Sacrosanct]

He was an award-winning actor, for one thing, and the star of classic movies like M*A*S*H, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Great Train Robbery, Ordinary People, played Buffy's first watcher in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, was a great villain in the Hunger Games movies.

Heck, I would have married him!

Darn it! you quoted me before I fixed it lol. You must have been quick, because I edited it right after I posted it when I saw what I did.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Darn it! you quoted me before I fixed it lol. You must have been quick, because I edited it right after I posted it when I saw what I did.

 

[Lidgar]

I think b/w can convey a feeling that color can't, and I wish it was used more often. When I did Chromatic Dungeons years ago, I hired an artist to do an homage to that piece, and to this date, is one of my favorite versions of art I ever had an artist do

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Love that piece. Who was the artist if I may ask?

 

[Warpiglet-7]

I am likely in the minority here but I am pretty pumped by this dmg preview.

I honestly don’t have much interest in the new phb…but would be more than happy to use this with my 2014 phb!

As to folks talking about happy goofy art…I get it. But Warduke does not look like he wants to have tea…and venger is raising rhe dead so checks a lot of boxes for me!

I have not liked a lot of lore changes over the years so I do the unthinkable and stay mostly current with rules sets and use old lore that I liked!

If I can use this DMG with my current books I feel like they delivered on the compatibility front.

This is not a zero sum game or black white issue of adoption or 100% rejection. Take what you like and ignore the rest. This will be possible if they delivered.

I want bastions and better treasure table in my current game. Looks like I might get them!

Edited for spelling

 

[Lidgar]

Every one of WotC's posts on Facebook gets overrun with comments like this (without the self-awareness). The OSR is eager to talk to all of you.

Huh. Well, not being of Facebook, chalk that up to ignorance.

And the various OSR games are great. Love the art in DCC and Shadowdark for example. But our group is pretty committed to 5e, and we can ignore the art - it's the content that matters anyways.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Love that piece. Who was the artist if I may ask?

Ezequiel Siñaris, an 18 year old kid from Brazil at the time.

 

[Azzy]

Something about this guy’s haircut just bothers me. I have a feeling that in 30 years someone will look back at this haircut the way I look at older depictions of Kitiara, or the one where Tina Turner plays Lolth.

Eric went into the Marines after returning to the real world.

 

[The Soloist]

OD&D art was by friends and family. AD&D art was by actual artists.

No, it's by Dave Sutherland.

Correct, I should have looked at my book first.

 

[Chaosmancer]

I haven't finished looking through my PHB yet, but for everyone talking about how everyone is too happy and there isn't enough grit.... maybe you should have clicked on the link to imjur? Cause, you know, there are more than six art pieces in the book.